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Six Feet Under was one of the most compelling television dramas in history IMO. Anyone with half an IQ knows the idiot box is mostly full of crap, but Six Feet Under was the cream of the crap’s crop. I’ve never paid for HBO personally, but when Bravo began airing reruns a year or so ago…I was addicted almost instantaneously. Three episodes would run in a row every Monday and, on those nights, I was affixed to the sofa religiously, as if Couch Potatoism was suddenly a worthwhile new sect. Imagine how Aussie-born singer Sia felt when the heart-wrenching series finale featured her song “Breathe Me” in its final minutes.
“I often say that that resuscitated my career.”
Ironic, considering each of the show’s major characters is killed off in the course of the gripping sequence. Thus the circle of life continues, even in the entertainment business. A truly remarkable cable show met its demise (in the form of halted production), but a promising Aussie singer (who’d been recently dropped from her label) experienced rebirth. While she had previously enjoyed modest success in the UK (thanks largely to a few key garage remixes), few Americans had the slightest clue who she was before that ingenious licensing decision. The times, they are a changin’…or at least she hopes so, for the sake of her own Monkey Puzzle Records.
Some people have REAL problems, Sia’s fine new platter, is currently seeping its way into caffeine fiends’ eardrums across the country, via a mom and pop coffee shop chain you’ve probably never heard of called Starbucks. While many physical record stores are staring down extinction and/or bankruptcy at the hands of either iTunes or rampant file sharing (BURN MUSIC, NOT ARTISTS), Starbucks’ unit moving clout has continuously proven tried and true. Accessibility could have something to do with it. Then again, the Zero 7 crooner’s tuneage has definitely got some unit moving charm of its own. REAL problems keepers include hidden cut/kickoff single “Buttons” and my own personal fave “The Girl You Lost to Cocaine,” and not just because of its blatant drug reference…I’m hooked on the melody as well. Additionally, genre chameleon Beck lends subtle, barely noticeable backup vocals to a track called “Academia.” What more could one ask for?
February 24th @ The Fox
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